Gallery: Aug. 27, 1981: Veteran comic Mickey Rooney wears a Napoleonic-era hat as he tapes an “I love New York” television commercial with British-American actress Elizabeth Taylor, in New York.

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Gallery: Mickey Rooney in 1957.

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Gallery: Actor Mickey Rooney is shown in this file photo as G.I. Dooley in the 1956 Hollywood movie "The Bold and the Brave."

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Gallery: Mickey Rooney in "The Black Stallion"

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Gallery: July 7, 2009: Mickey Rooney and wife Jan Chamberlin arrive at the memorial service for Michael Jackson.

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Gallery: July 26, 2003: Mickey Rooney, 82, in Boys Town, Neb., as part of the home for troubled youth's 65th anniversary celebration of the 1938 Oscar-winning movie "Boys Town" that starred Rooney and Spencer Tracy.

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